Emma Raducanu has been urged to “embrace” the highlight she will probably be beneath at this 12 months’s Wimbledon by fellow Brit Cameron Norrie.
Raducanu is gearing as much as return to the scene of the place her meteoric rise started along with her run to the fourth spherical final 12 months.
The 19-year-old went on to shock the sporting world by profitable the US Open, and can return to SW19 as a grand slam champion, British primary and, inevitably, carrying the hopes of a nation.
Second-round exits on the Australian and French Opens could have tempered expectations barely, however males’s primary Norrie says the main target will nonetheless be on the Kent teenager.
Norrie, 26, stated: “She has had a whole lot of consideration after the US Open – I don’t suppose will probably be any simpler round Wimbledon.
“Hopefully she is going to go and embrace it. She is aware of precisely how a lot consideration she is going to get. It is going to be much more.
“She must preserve her head down, preserve having fun with the tennis, I’m certain she is wanting ahead to the grass. I feel it’s one in every of her greatest surfaces as effectively. It is going to be a whole lot of enjoyable.
“At 19, I used to be doing totally different stuff than she is now. She is having to cope with much more pressurised state of affairs and greater moments than I used to be on the identical age.
Cameron Norrie reached the third spherical at Roland Garros Thibault Camus/AP)
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“I used to be in school having fun with myself and dwelling a extra regular life.
“She may be very mature, very effectively spoken and hopefully she will be able to let her tennis do the speaking at Wimbledon. She performed nice there final 12 months.
“Hopefully she will be able to use the house crowd to her benefit – individuals will probably be loving her.”
Norrie was the final Brit standing at Roland Garros this 12 months, his run ending with a third-round defeat to Russia’s Karen Khachanov late on Friday night time.
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